I found Lemmy thanks to a guy on reddit wich answered to my comment. I said that we leftists generally lacked a place where we could express some opinions without te fear of being banned. infact Reddit moderation (both admins and mods) suck and doing their “job” and there are instances of people being banned just for saying something completely normal or just some bugs. I am still active on Reddit but would like to make the Lemmy community grow so mabye it can become and actual alternative.

Sorry for any disturb, bye :3

P.S.

Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.

  • Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    I was using Reddit Sync. When the API nonsense went down, the Dev announced that they were switching to Lemmy. I’ve stayed on the app and now feel like I’m part of a much richer community. I’m glad to be here.

  • AAA@feddit.org
    17·
    2 days ago

    I’m here since the reddit API changes, which lead to the app I used being shut down (I don’t remember the name anymore).

    Im still lurking on reddit, but haven’t logged in ever since.

  • CodeBlooded@programming.dev
    7·
    2 days ago

    I can’t straight up “quit Reddit” for Lemmy yet. There’s not enough of the content I want to see here, yet.

    A while after Reddit practically blocked the Apollo app, I realized just how much I loved that app. It was the perfect Reddit interface. Not long after, I discovered how great Voyager did of replacing the experience, and that’s what ultimately brought me here “permanently.”

    So, Reddit has lost browsing time from me big time, and that time is now shared with Lemmy.

    Also, I love a good Rust project 🦀

  • Aljernon@lemmy.today
    5·
    2 days ago

    The answer to your question is “essentially everyone”. Either hated Reddit, hated the changes, hated the app restrictions, and/or got Permabanned over nothing.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
      55·
      3 days ago

      🙋

      Thanks to Reddit is Fun for all the years. I didn’t want to leave. Reddit kicked me out

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I was an avid redditor. It was my main filler activity.

      I quit cold turkey with the API debacle and have never been back.

      It was really rough at first, but I like it here.

    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Same. I was constantly on Apollo. I loved the dev and how active they were. I got all the fun in jokes and considered it a very nerdy activity to scroll Reddit. Swapped to a new instance after a while, so this account isn’t as old as that.

      Now I’m on Voyager and have swapped to Linux, so I guess the hive mind here is strong too!

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      I considered it, but didn’t because of the communities I was still a part of.

      I finally left when they IP banned me for saying stuff like “I’m surprised nazis aren’t being attacked tbh”

      the third party API thing is when I pretty much completely stopped contributing quality content, though. to anywhere - I don’t really do that anywhere now. touched some grass, y’know?

    • Caesium@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      same. I was talking to a friend who regularly used reddit during the time all that was going down. Was pretty sure he was gonna migrate to lemmy with me.

      He still posts reddit threads regularly in our group chat

    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 days ago

      Same. Although I do lurk a bit with rdx. But I won’t touch Twitter or any Meta products with a 10 foot pole.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m here for the same reason. Interestingly enough I figured out how to make the app I use work again, but by that point reddit had gone to AI slop hell.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 days ago

    Not me, I’m here since the reddit API disaster, and Lemmy is my replacement for reddit. I deleted my reddit account. I’m happy to have left. I feel like this is a nicer place. Healthier discussions. Calm. Not as much heated name calling.

    Although some people have been rather rude as of late, so I try to remind them of how to act. But obviously there will be people who are still going to be assholes for no reason.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      3·
      2 days ago

      i dont report people here, only rarely. on reddit i did alot because of so many misinformation, and trolls, and that ended up rubbed me the wrong way since reporting is a double edge sword on there,sometimes it works to get that troll off the sub, but sometimes the report, if the MOds dont agree with it you can get banned if they think your report doesnt actually have any violaiton on the reported.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        I’ve reported a couple people recently. One person got banned from a community, which was rewarding. They were telling people left and right to kill themselves and shit.

        But yeah that situation is not nice. A report shouldn’t take in you getting banned, unless they find out you were the antagonist somehow. Reporting in itself shouldn’t be considered abuse unless it happens very frequently by the same person. My two cents.

    • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Everything you said is how I feel. I was enjoying reddit until the Brexit referendum, which was when it felt like it got taken over by the alt right. When the API thing came, I realised that money was the only thing that mattered and they were selling my discussion space to whoever would spend, and the alt right was spending big. We didn’t matter, so like you, I left.

      I was delighted to find people talking again here on lemmy.

      • Jayjader@jlai.lu
        3·
        2 days ago

        Chiming in to say: same, though it took a step further for me before I quit in disgust. I was ready to accept the api costs argument in good faith until I learned that a dev could not make a reddit client that would use my own api token. Which meant they didn’t (only) care about the api load, they care about ensuring that I see as many ads instead of posts that they can get away with.

        Sadly, Google worsening their search results to juice their own (ad) numbers not long afterwards led to the general public learning about searching Reddit as a way to land on actual human-vetted info. Just as the core user base splintered and left in greater numbers than ever before, a tidal wave of new users joined and enthusiastically picked up the torch – without even realizing what they were contributing to.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      You could consider the question of whether there is still something about reddit that you value. Seeking an alternative usually means you’re trying to fulfill a value or need the previous option provided. While that was true when i first landed on Lemmy there’s simply nothing i value about reddit anymore. So i no longer consider it an alternative.

      There’s also the alternative motive of valuing/supporting FOSS/federation.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    111·
    2 days ago

    I am not here on lemmy/the fediverse just because it is an alternative to reddit, I am here because I intend to contribute as much as possible to destroying reddit by being here and contributing.

    It makes me sad seeing the blanket cynicism people have towards the potential of social media as if we tried everything and social media is just inherently toxic when all we have tried is for-profit social media run by massive corporations full of sociopathic ultra rightwing upper management that demand endless growth.

    Reddit has to go, it is far too centralized a replacement for forum/message boards, but the good news is every meaningful contribution we make here on Lemmy/the fediverse pushes the knife deeper into reddit’s chest :)

    Reddit can only win at forming an unavoidable corporate silo we are compelled to endure if it projects an inevitability to it, we are here to destroy that inevitability.

  • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’d argue it already is an actual alternative so long as you’re following more general technical content rather than niche local stuff. Most of us the people here have Reddit’s API shutdown for third party apps to thank including myself. At least for me the last time I tried using the first party app it had major issues playing gifs on my Galaxy A52. Combine the bugs with the general closing of the platform and it was quite an easy switch. Lemmy is certainly smaller, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I waste less time on it than I used to on Reddit which feels more healthy.

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    Was perma banned in Reddit a few years ago for discussing ACA compliance. I saw it coming for awhile, the any comment I made no matter how inauspicious was flagged over the course of a few weeks.

    After banning I was unable to post on any of my accounts. But I could change prior comments so I used an app to generate AI gibberish and replace years of comments and participation with AI bullshit to salt the earth for Reddit.

    Before you leave I recommend doing the same.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      3·
      2 days ago

      recently you have to be so careful about keywords now on reddit, form what ive heard. they can automatically delete comments or posts based on the reddit site wide filter, this is a new development on thier part.

      the one thing on reddit, is reporting someone even once can be considered “report abuse” i can understand if its spam reporting someone, but once, twice or thrice? how is that abusing it.

      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        2 days ago

        this is a new development

        Some subreddits (almost said communities, heh) had been using bots to automatically ban anyone who posted or commented even once (regardless of the content) in subreddits they’d blacklisted long before the API debacle…

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      That’s what’s nice about Lemmy in general. It tends to lean quite left, but you aren’t going to get outright banned for speaking your mind if it differs from general consensus (although you might farm some downvotes lol).

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        1·
        2 days ago

        reddit was “kinda left” before '16, when he got first elected bans started happening, then reddit start shifting to the right, sitll on the left. now its just mostly center right to the right. whats keeping it from going on full right, is subs are sitll posting about trumps GAFFES and critcizing him.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
    57·
    2 days ago

    Reddit shadow banned my account for posting this diy candle idea on witches vs patriarchy. They won’t respond so I guess I’m barred from participating forever.